Thursday, 24 October 2013

AS LITERATURE - THE 59TH BEAR

Here are some youtube clips to help put the poem into context.

Click here for a link to a Yogi Bear cartoon

Click here for a Disney bear

Click here to hear a performance of the song 'If you go down to the woods today.'

Click here to see bears in Yellowstone National Park

and here

IB ENGLISH YR 2 - SOME KEY TERMS

Here are some key literary, rhetorical and language terms you should be familiar with when analysing a text. As continue work on paper 1 exam you should refer back to this table. You can also use the glossary on this blog. Click here to go to that page.

Literature
Rhetoric
 
Imagery
Phonology
 
Simile
Metaphor
- metaphorical
- extended
Personification
Oxymoron
Symbolism
Rhyme
Rhythm
Alliteration
Assonance
Onomatopoeia
Repetition
Hyperbole
List of three
Lists
Direct address
Comparative pair
Contrasting pair
 
Language
Grammar
Lexis
Register
Syntax
Nouns
-Concrete
-Abstract
-Pronoun
-Proper noun
 
Adjectives

Verbs
Words
High / low frequency
 
Denotation Connotation
 
Monosyllabic
Polysyllabic
 
Lexical fields
Formal / Informal / technical
Sentence
structures
Simple Compound Complex
 
Declarative
Interrogative
Imperative
Exclamative
Literary
features
Narrator
Setting
Genre
General
First person
Second person
Third person
 
Past, present, future tense
 
Monologue
Dialogue
 
Subjective
Objective
Location
Interior
Exterior
 
Time
Season

Weather


Elements
Senses

Poetry – free verse
 
Descriptive writing
-Superlatives
-Comparatives
 
Narrative – story telling
 
Reflective writing
 
Autobiography
 
Elegy
Conflict
 
Structure
- dialectic
- Freytag

Wednesday, 23 October 2013

A2 LL - HALF TERM HOLIDAY ACTIVITIES

Here are the tasks for you to work on over half term. We will be moving very quickly through the rest of the material in the anthology so you must be familiar with this work before we study it in class.

TASK

Reread the Heaney poems we have studied this half term and edit and make further notes on the relevant key topics referred to at the bottom of this page.

TASK

Read through the Plath poems in the anthology and make notes on the poems.

  • What is the plot of each poem
  • Identify the key topics that link to each poem
  • consider the main language and literary features Plath uses in these poems
TASK

Read the following three stories by James Joyce. I'll produce a hard copy of them next half term. Read them with reference to the topics below and make some brief notes comparing these with those you have written on Heaney and are writing about Plath.

Click here to read An Encounter

Click here to read Araby

and click here to read Eveline

You may also want to read The Sisters but we won't have time to study it in class.

Click here to read The Sisters

KEY TOPICS

Childhood, isolation, settings, personal relationships, narrative voice, nature, vivid experiences

Here are some key language and literary terms to help you in your comparative analysis.
Literature
Rhetoric
Imagery
Phonology
Simile
Metaphor
- metaphorical
- extended
Personification
Oxymoron
Symbolism
Rhyme
Rhythm
Alliteration
Assonance
Onomatopoeia
Repetition
Hyperbole
List of three
Lists
Direct address
Comparative pair
Contrasting pair
Language
Grammar
Lexis
Register
Syntax
Nouns
-Concrete
-Abstract
-Pronoun
-Proper noun
Adjectives
Verbs
Words
High / low frequency
Denotation Connotation
Monosyllabic
Polysyllabic
Lexical fields
Formal / Informal / technical
Sentence
structures
Simple Compound Complex
Declarative
Interrogative
Imperative
Exclamative
Literary
features
Narrator
Setting
Genre
General
First person
Second person
Third person
Past, present, future tense
Monologue
Dialogue
Subjective
Objective
Location
Interior
Exterior
Time
Season

Weather




Elements
Senses

Poetry – free verse
Descriptive writing
-Superlatives
-Comparatives
Narrative – story telling
Reflective writing
Autobiography
Elegy

Bring your notes and annotations to the lesson with you on Wednesday 6 November for me to check your work